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Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions
Guiso, Luigi - 2015
While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two … makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture. Cultural changes and their effects are easier to identify in … simpler, more controlled, environments, such as corporations. Corporate culture, thus, is not only interesting per se, but …
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Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …
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Corporate Culture : Evidence from the Field
Graham, John R. - 2017
Does corporate culture matter? Can differences in corporate culture explain why similar firms diverge with one … American firms. Over half of senior executives believe that corporate culture is a top-three driver of firm value and 92 …% believe that improving their culture would increase their firm's value. Surprisingly, only 16% believe their culture is where …
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Executives' "Off-The-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk
Davidson, Robert - 2012
We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low "frugality") and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that CEOs and CFOs with a legal record are more likely to perpetrate fraud. In...
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Achieving Scale Collectively
Bassi, Vittorio; Muoio, Raffaela; Porzio, Tommaso; Sen, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper argues that rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduct a novel survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda, which uncovers an active...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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Small Business Survival Capabilities and Policy Effectiveness : Evidence from Oakland
Bartlett, Robert P, III. - 2020
Using unique City of Oakland data during COVID-19, we document that small business survival capabilities vary by firm size as a function of revenue resiliency, labor flexibility, and committed costs. Nonemployer businesses rely on low cost structures to survive 73% declines in own-store foot...
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PIPE Dreams? The Performance of Companies Issuing Equity Privately
Brophy, David J. - 2004
Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs) have become an important source of financing for young, publicly traded firms whose poor operating performance may limit alternative financing options. We propose that firms are motivated to sell these securities to minimize costs associated with...
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...
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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Cai, Jing - 2016
We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a "no- meetings" control group....
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